Once the download is complete you can close the SDK Manager. We need the tools but we don’t need any of the other SDK development packs (failing to uncheck them means you’ll have to sit through a lengthy download and waste disk space with development images you won’t need). Take a moment to uncheck everything but the top entry, Android SDK Platform-Tools. When you run the SDK Manager several windows will open rapidly and look like this: We have to do a little updating as the new versions of the SDK pack don’t come with some of the auxiliary apps we need. There is no need to install the SDK pack and all the extra stuff it wants you to install unless you’re planning on doing Android development (and if you are, you likely already having it installed anyway).ĭownload the archive and extract the android-sdk-windows folder. There is a Windows installer, we recommend skipping it. The first thing we need to do is configure the Android SDK. Optional: If you don’t have Java installed on your system, download it here.įor this tutorial we’ll be using a Windows 7 machine but since there is an SDK pack for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and the secret sauce in our tutorial is a Java app, you should have no problem following along regardless of your OS.Download Java-based AndroidScreencast here.Download the Android SDK for your OS here (Windows users should skip the installer and grab the ZIP).For this trick you’ll need a few things, all of them free (sans your not-free-as-in-beer Android device).
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